I have personally witnessed the social and economic disruptions that occur when unelected bureaucrats make arbitrary decisions.
The thousands of coal miners in West Virginia, Appalachia and across this nation desperately need your help.
People, American citizens, are dying at the hands of an insatiable coal industry profit machine.
We seek not a subsidy or handout. We just need the permission to work.
The outcome of this hearing should not be one that supports those who are benefitting from an endeavor that is killing people in mountain co...
However we cannot depend on jobs that destroy other's lives and livelihoods.
The rulemaking from OSM that is the subject of the hearing today is particularly offensive.
We will not in any way, shape or form in this state of West Virginia tolerate any violence against anyone on any side.
When these agencies or legislators, for that matter, become ill-influenced by those they oversee... the people are not well served.
I think a dog probably has more rights and protection than an unborn baby in a mountaintop removal community.
If that doesn't get your attention, it doesn't spur you to some sort of action, then you've sold your very heart and soul.